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Pastry shops across the woods are closing because a thief known as the Goody Bandit keeps stealing their recipes. Red Puckett works in her Granny's bakery, and she sets off to bring the Puckett recipe book up the mountain, where it will be safe. Wolf W. Wolf, a reporter hunting the Bandit, questions her on the way. Kirk, an aspiring actor with a schnitzel truck, has already been robbed. Then Granny's cottage becomes a crime scene, with Granny tied up, Wolf posing as her and Kirk coming through the window. Detective Nicky Flippers takes charge of the inquiry with Chief Grizzly and Detective Bill Stork, and Red, Wolf, Granny and Kirk each tell their own version of the day.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hoodwinked! (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Weinstein Company heavily recast the film with bigger-name actors: Anne Hathaway replaced Tara Strong as Red, Glenn Close replaced Sally Struthers as Granny Puckett, Jim Belushi replaced David Ogden Stiers as Kirk the Woodsman, and Xzibit replaced Joel McCrary as Chief Grizzly.
- Although Box Office Mojo lists the budget at $30 million, several sources have rejected that figure, and director Cory Edwards explained in a 2009 interview that the film was actually made for under $8 million.
- The filmmakers turned down a distribution offer from DreamWorks Pictures, and instead landed with the newly formed Weinstein Company after Robert Rodriguez's wife, whose attorney also worked for the filmmakers' production company, brought the film to Harvey and Bob Weinstein's attention at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Andy Dick improvised his way into the villain Boingo, reading him as victimized and unstable rather than as written. Todd Edwards said what they had written was stock, but where Dick was supposed to laugh he would cry, and where he was supposed to yell he would laugh.
- Because the animation had already been mostly completed by the time the recastings were made, the new actors had to deliver their lines exactly as the old actors had, with no opportunity to improvise; Edwards was disappointed the originals got no credit for improvisations the replacements copied.
- To save costs the animation was produced in Manila, Philippines, where producers Sue Bea Montgomery and David K. Lovegren founded the animation studio Digital Eye Candy in a 5,000-square-foot rented house purely for this film.
- The film went on to be the best-selling DVD in its initial week of release, shifting more than 700,000 copies and taking over $13.5 million.
